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CLARENCE S. STROWUSRIDGE, OF CORTLAND, NEWV YORK.

CHBLDS CARRHAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,935, dated October2, 1883,

Application filed April 14,1983. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE S. SrRow- BRIDGE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Cortland, in the county of Cortland and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriages,

of which the following is a specification, reference being had thereinto the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an interchangeable carriage and sleigh; and thenovelty consists in the construction, arrangement, and

adaptation of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, andspecifically pointed out in the claims.

The invention has for its essential object to produce such a formationand arrangement of body-springs and concomitant parts of a carriage asshall not only be efficient in service and simple and cheap ofmanufacture, but which shall be readily susceptible of disengagementfrom the ordinary running gear, and the springs be adapted to serve assleigh-runners, whereby the device is readily and quicklyinterchangeable; and to this end the invention consists, essentially,int-he mechanisms fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, whichform a part of this specification, and in which 7 Figure 1 represents aperspective view of the device, showing a childs carriage on run- 11ers;and Fig. 2 a similar view of the device on wheels. Fig.3 is aperspective view of the device with carriage-body and runninggearremoved that is to say, of the spring and its supports and braces.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters of referenceindicate like parts in all the figures, A indicates a double C spring,made of a single piece of spring metal, having a straight or horizontalportion, a, and curved portions 0 and a the latter being the rear springor curve, which is bent up; ward and forward and downward until its endis secured to a bar, B, or the horizontal clipped or otherwise properlysecured, to the forward and rear axles, w and m, respectively, and whenso used the said bars 13 serve as a reach or brace between the axles aand an. The bars B serve the double functions of serving as reaches orstrengthening frames to the axles when the running-gear is' in use, andalso as runners for the device when used as a sleigh, the spring servingas the runnershoe. I attach importance to this part of the invention.The springsin this class of devices are necessarily so light that theycould not serve as runners without support, and the frame of therunning-gear also needs support. By these bars B, I supply bothsupporting means in both alternatives.

To keep the body and springs in their relaative positions, I provide across-brace, D, each end of which is secured to the bars B, or thehorizontal portions a, as the case may be, and the middle portion to thebottom of the body. This brace, however, may be made in two pieces, oneend of each being secured to the body-bottom, and the other to the barsor the runners.

It will be observed that. as a childs sleigh the device may be impelledin either dircction by the handle E of the body F, and that it forms avery convenient and useful sleiglr carriage.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In an interchangeable carriage and sleigh, the springs A andsupporting-bars 13, adapted to serve with the body F and running-gear,or to serve as sleigh-runners, substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

2. In combination with the running'gear and body of a carriage, thespring A, bent to form Csprings a and a", and having a portion serve asa brace, and a supportingbar B, as set forth.

3. In aninterchangeable carriage and sleigh, the combination, with thebody F and running-gear, of the springs A, bent as shown, the bars B,and the cross-braces D, all ar ranged and adapted to serve substantiallyas and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLARENCE S. STROIVBR-IDGE.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. STRO'WBRIIDGE,

R. H. DUnLL,

